The finale perfectly encapsulates why the Progenitor story should have been left alone. In the TNG episode the various factions believed that what they would find would be a thing, a weapon, a source of power, whatever. But what they found was an idea, a philosophical truth: we are all more alike than even we realize…

I mean, people will buy anything, but I’ve always been baffled by these promotional buckets. You’re going to spend several dollars on it and then what? Are you going to take it home and eat popcorn out of it there? Is it going on a shelf? It’s certainly not going to be worth any money as a collectible and these things…

I mean, you put The Final Countdown into your trailer and it can’t help but seem fun. It’d be interesting to track the use of that song in media over time. My suspicion is that it was more or less forgotten until Arrested Development and then it’s just flourished ever since.

I mean, the great thing about it being unclear in the original artwork, and it being fantasy, is that we can come up with whatever story we want. The ultimate flaw in the arguments made by the people who get worked up about this kind of thing is that it doesn’t matter. Nothing about the gender of that character is…

I mean, there’s a reasonable argument that it was supposed to be a dude. Larry Elmore, the artist who drew it, said that it was intended to be a dude, and Elmore’s art tends not to depict women as muscular bruisers. But also, the character is facing away from the audience so it doesn’t really matter what the intent…

Recently, Wizards of the Coast announced that they were releasing a lootbox style product in which customers can blind buy D&D related miniatures. They also announced that a rare figure within those packs would be the figure from the famous D&D Red Box from the 80s who they were depicting as a woman, and of course the…

Look, can we put this conspiracy theory to bed? Prince Adam is a nice guy, but he and his pet tiger are cowards. He-Man and his pet tiger are super brave. Two guys go to the same barber and know all the same people and the kooks come out of the woodwork.

Well, the animation looks good for what was supposed to be a TV show.

He is a piece of shit, for sure.

I couldn’t have said it better. It’s not about having your politics validated, it’s that civil wars don’t happen for no reason. People don’t take to the streets killing each other over minor disagreements. What led this version of America to open conflict matters to what we think about the characters in it. And the…

Look, I hope that this show is good and I’m glad that the initial reactions are positive. But the line about how “no one is good, no one is bad” just drives me up the wall. Even in a morally complex world we can say that someone who is less than perfect is good if they generally are doing good works in the world and…

The period of TV history where shows were episodic has tons of phenomenal single episodes, and plenty of bad ones. The period of TV history where shows have moved towards more serialized storytelling has lots of great season long arcs and lots of season long arcs that didn’t work and weighed down the entire season, or…

I agree that the writing hasn’t been good, but on a show that’s all in on serialized storytelling if you have bad writing it infects the whole season. If you have at least some portion of the episodes dedicated to telling individual, episodic stories then there’s at least a chance that you’ll get a really great…

Like I said, I think that somewhere in the middle is probably the right balance. Having an overarching story to organize a season around, give it some larger themes, and drive it towards the finale is a good thing, but if you commit too hard to that story and it doesn’t work, as it hasn’t for a lot of seasons of…

With Discovery ending my hope is that future series dial down the serialized approach to story-telling and lean back towards more episodic stories. Now, we’re not going to go back to the being purely episodic, which was designed for an era when shows went into syndication and you couldn’t rely on the audience watching…

I mean, maybe there’s an argument that he was more constrained in Season 2, but yeah, that’s pretty damning.

In the comics Vision was dismantled and rebuilt into an all-white form in 1989. In this version he had Vision’s memories but was cold and emotionless. I’ve never seen it discussed, but it sure seems like a reaction to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Data and the general Pinocchio story arc that he was on. I’d imagine…

Here’s the thing about building expensive sets: that means that it’ll get used in most/all of the episodes at some point. Sure, you’ll have an episode here or there that will take place off world, but the central thrust of the season, and especially the climactic last couple of episodes, will absolutely take place…

There was a lot that was wrong about the last couple Monsterverse movies so I don’t know if a new director would really make a difference, but it can’t hurt.

Agreed on all counts, especially about Lost. It's frankly baffling that so many people seemed to not understand that the show wasn't about the answer to why a polar bear was on the island.